Triton et sirène

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Triton et sirène
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No. 4' (on the front); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris.' (on the right side) and inscribed '©by musée Rodin 1969' (on the left side); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
Length: 10 in. (25.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1902 and cast by Georges Rudier in an edition of six between 1966 and 1972; this example cast in 1969

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1988, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A.E. Elsen, (ed.), Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 149 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.773, p. 693 (another cast illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2018-5889B.

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